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The Advaita Show #013 – You've heard the podcast, now buy the t-shirt
"Who Is Asking The Question" – The T-Shirt
November 23, 2005The Advaita Show #014 – The Guru Gets Ripped Off
December 6, 2005The Advaita Show #013 (MP3 – 11MB – 30min)
This week, in a special edition to promote our new t-shirt, Bob tries to cram the question “Who’s Asking The Question” as many time as possible into a 30 minute conversation.
By the way, speaking of our t-shirt – don’t forget to buy the t-shirt folks. You think those Rolls-Royces are going to buy themselves??
Who are you saving your money for, anyway?
Don’t you realize that by hoarding all of your cash like that, you are just perpetuating your sense of the false me?
Give your money to Bob and he’ll take care of it for you, save you the agony of the illusion of cash. 🙂
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20 Comments
all RIGHT already
i got it … the t-shirt that is
otherwise i cannot truthfully say,
been there done that got the t-shirt
of couse that is pure bullshit … who been where who done what etc
i love ya bob
even you too cam (or not two too)
Proof:
Thanks for your recent purchase from CafePress.com!
Your Order Number is 19879195.
i will wear it with a complete absence of pride or shame
or “it will be worn) LOL, ROTOTFFLMAO
(and I haven’t even listened to #13 yet… :-)))
the penny dropped (what penny? ) !
it is a bit giddy here yee ha
Is Sailor Bob wearing anchor “bling” in that photo??? I don’t know what is more bizarre…anchoir bling or Cam on a t-shirt…
ps
just shows to go ya
a sucker-seeker born every minute
what’s next? Bobble-head sri Bobbananada dolls?
little anchors on solid gold chains blessed personally by bobbananda
Cam … ask Bob what he says to seekers who
wanna kiss his holy guru feet …
love ya too Bob
Sorry to go on about this but I have difficulty understanding the difference between deep sleep, what used to be called enlightenment and death.
If Bob is That, why is there any difference in what he perceives when his mind body is awake or asleep?
And if dying is the end of separation, why does the That we apparently return to not continue perceiving the phenomenal world? Why does the perceiving not continue?
My own view is that each body mind CREATES it’s own illusion of reality when it is born which disappears when it dies. It’s not perceiving the universe it’s creating one.
Richard
Madrid, Spain
Hi Cameron and Bob,
Another great show. My question – spirituality is usually associated with reverence – please could comment on the impulse towards the sacred, transcendence, reverent. I find reverence hard to place in the Advaita picture.
thanks,
Helen
HI Cameron and Bob,
FOR SOME OPTICLE ILLUSIONS that supports ADVAITA ,PLZ CHECK OUT http://holographicuniverse.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/
Thanks
Basavaraj
Imagine you are a character in a dream.
Another character comes up to you in the dream and tells you – “you are not real – you are a dreamed character.”
What could they say to convince you of that?
Nothing, because you are not real and neither are they.
Yet the dreamer is real.
How do you, as the dreamed character, know that?
You don’t because you are not real.
As the dreamed character, you may pretend to know…
but if you are not real – then who is pretending?
~ (thanks to John Greven for this lovely puzzle)
This I would ask a question, but, the question disappeared, then I looked back to see who was asking the question and he had disappeared too! Who is asking the questions, not I!
IT’S ALL THAT IS. 🙂
Love from Bob Seal . . .Who!
Cameron. This I would buy a t-shirt, but there’s on-one home!
This I would ask a question, but, the question disappeared, then I looked back to see who was asking the question and he had disappeared too! Who is asking the questions, not I!
IT’S ALL THAT IS. 🙂
Love from Bob Seal . . .Who!
Cameron. This I would buy a t-shirt, but there’s no-one home!
Cool, that it is possible to create a marketing article that quickly and sell it over the net.
Cool Cameron, this is cool.
If you want please give me quick note over email.
How I can do that as well (for my own small business or private events).
which company/site enables me to do this?
cafepress.com?
If you have the time, if not fine as well.
thx
cheers
On the whole issue of “real” vs “unreal”. I find it quite strange when people say:
” Since I am not real, I can not buy a t-shirt, I can not do this or that, ha, haha, bla, bla bla, hahaha, what a funny joke”.
Of course “Tan” is real. Just not the way “Tan” thought he is.
Tan is as real as the wind. Appearing and dissapearing. The ONE playing wind and in the other instant playing thinking “tan hungry need to feed”.
I am real, Cameron is real, Bob is real, the T-shirt is real and so on and on BUT:
The assumption that Tan is separate, Cameron is separate, the T-shirt is separate, bla bla bla is faulty. Just a tiny little faulty assumption and the habbit of believing that since one is about 2 years old. (+ the faulty assumption that “Tan” calls the shots. tan is as real as a fart out of this rearend)
So to sum up:
ONE is real. And it plays Me, Cameron, the T-Shirt and so on.
So If I hit another Advaita-jerk in the face, he will feel the hit as quite real.
Neither I will make the decision to hit him nor he that it will hurt.
But the ONE is hitting the ONE. Go figure that strange nonsense.
Please Feel free to comment Bob and Cameron on this point.
p.s.
I was just working on an important presentation and I am supposed to be under time pressure, before I go back to kids and my wife.
So Why I am a wasting my time on this message?
Yeah Now I know , I am not real, how shall I know !!! Did I just destroy my whole message before. mmh??? 😉
Keep it up Cam and Bob!
The Intelligence Energy disguised as Mark would like to play the game of asking more questions:
1. Bob has a great laugh….but does he ever catch himself slipping out of his laughing-guru mode and get mad and start yelling at people? Does he cry? If so, are these egoic slip-ups?
2. If I have 2 t-shirts hanging in my closet, if there’s no free will, then who chooses between wearing the Advaita T-shirt or the Van Halen concert T-shirt? Since Bob claims it’s the “Intelligence Energy” who spontaneously reaches for one shirt over the other, and not a personal “me” who thinks it has good fashion sense, then where did the “Intelligence Energy” aquire its sense of style?
i don’t even need to listen to your Podcasts, their introductions are so good, that they are good enough to create the feeling of the Podcast. Make them less interesting, Cameron, or some people will simply skip listening to Podcasts, like i did!
Hi Bob and Cameron,
After years of reading and listening to teachers I’m at a loss. I have this intense desire to find out who or what I am. It’s consuming most of my spare time and I can’t let it go. On top of that I feel totally helpless to do anything about it. One the one hand I have the idea that there’s no-one who can do anything about it (tony parsons) although I still think of myself as a someone/something on the other hand I have john wheeler’s advice to ‘look for my true nature’, but when i try to do that i have absolutely no idea what i should be looking for. Even if I would try to change the advice in something like ‘look for the I’ i have no idea to what this i refers to (so any question beginning with ‘WHO’ seems meaningless) or how to look for it. Even though i get that all these things are only arising in awareness, in what I am, they still seem to arise and together with it the wanting to get rid of those thoughts. John pointing “you are aware and you know it and that’s it” doesn’t click. When I try to notice awareness (as he sometimes suggests) i have doubts if it’s awareness that Im noticing or perception (arising awareness). I seem to doubt everything that the mind throws up. I can’t believe anymore that I’m a person even though I act like one, I have no idea what I am and seem unable to find out what it is that I am and finding out seems to be the ultimate desire occupying my mind. I just don’t seem to be able to let it all drop. Hope you guys could help.
Thanks.
Kevin from Belgium.
Great show guys!!!! No one is lovin’ it!
Wow…I checked out the website http://holographicuniverse.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ that Basavaraj recommended…..it’s really good! I recommend it too!!! Check it out
or isn’ t it the point?
To
Cameron Reilly
Marketing Director, Guru Bob Inc.:
Dear Mr. Reilly,
we enjoyed your idea about producing a book called “Advaita for Dummies”.
Although we really liked the idea there are several recommendations that may make this a more successful book.
1. To optimize the book title we suggest to change it to:
“How to pep up your sex life through the hidden secrets of Advaita!”
or “How to get rich and beautiful through the proper newly revealed use of Advaita”
2. Also the front cover of the books may refrain from using boring symbols like the zen circle, trees, clouds and other “yawn” mainstream designs.
We suggest to put Guru Bobs picture at the back (if at all) and try to win Pam Anderson for the front cover (preferable in a tight non-belly covering t-shirt, why not take “who is asking the question” or “two b…. for ONE?” .
It is a win-win for both sides. She gets respected as brainy and welll you may get a revenue boost for book and shirt. Maybe Pam can even endorse the book by giving an introduction in the book along the lines: “This is the best advaita I ever had, the real the one and only true advaita”
Well again please just take this as humble suggestions from a non-existing-one (NonX1) in the “old” world here in Europa and please do feed the tamagochi if possible.
All da best
cheers
Amid the enjoyable hilarity and frivolity of the postings on this site, I was struck by the seriousness of Kevin’s entry.
I know this feeling! That damn tiger’s jaws are clamped tight around my head and won’t let go, and sometimes it’s joyful and wonderful and at others downright miserable.
This famous quote from the Niz (thanks Tan) distils my current approach to the whole thing:
“My Guru ordered me to attend to the sense ‘I am’ and to give attention to nothing else. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures. Whatever happened, I would turn away my attention from it and remain with the sense ‘I am’, it may look too simple, even crude. My only reason for doing it was that my Guru told me so. Yet it worked! â€
Summed up, he’s asking us to stay with the sense I am, this sense of aliveness, this feeling of being, and to ignore anything the mind throws up.
My ‘practice’ is to start with the standard question ‘Who am I’ and then look inwards. The mind, true to its nature, throws up all kinds of junk, which is noted and then allowed to fall away, no matter what it is, and attention returns to the question. The question itself eventually falls away and attention to the sense of I am-ness remains.
So this is what I do, and it has become clear that there is no one here. But who or what KNOWS there is no one here? What IS this knowing that knows this?
And that’s the mystery. There’s an alive space here that can’t be seen or felt or touched or tasted or heard or smelled or thought about or perceived in any way but, dammit, it’s HERE, and it’s this I AM and it’s the one certainty there is or can be, and it knows and contains all there is.
Stan
Dear Stan,
How about this POINTER
“Our identity is actually an awareness rather than a personality. Please, we don’t have to bang our heads to force ourselves to see this. A suggestion: have a sense of humor and enjoy life.”-Naama Livni & Brian Lake
Love
Basavaraj
hi bob, cameron,
i do enjoy listening to your podcast! (you two are very funny)
at times it sounds like there’s just too much made out of what’s essentially just living. life is. that’s it. simple.
only when all the thinking is believed to have any validity that discomfort and searching and right and wrong (hence duality) appear to be. but there is no duality, no non-duality. there is just life. living.
so … i tell my self ;)) at the risk of being a simpleton, why not just forget all the searching and get on with living. like, just this! nothing else. no analysis.
very often, when i find my self wrapped in thoughts about all this spiritual stuff, it inevitably gets depressing because it just goes nowhere. where can it go? a dog chasing its tail. for goodness sakes! it’s a self-defeating excercise. and we do it. bow wow! arf …
but then as soon as all the mental activity clears up it’s easy to see that it was just divisive. there had to be an idea or belief that i was somehow separate from life itself for any search at all! me vs. my life?!?! how silly is that!
well, i don’t know what you might say about this, but i’m happily listening.
love you guys,
Luly